To me this is completely unfair, and I will tell you why; This Woman can see every thing I have but I can't see hers! She sees us but we don"t get to see her. Nigab is a sign of distrust and fear. She is scary as hell. I won"t let her near my cat. She will scare him away. Seriously, what is she thinking? how long do we have to wait for people like her to catch up with modern time? I will tell Kenza Drider this: "be creative girl go forward with the fashion not backward.

If the people - or thier representatives - voted for this, then
that is what they choose.

I agree with this statement made. IT is a law in France. Whether you think its wrong or right that is your own opinion, the decision has been made that the Buqa is banned. So why would this lady travel to show off that she wore one and then complain about getting arrested for it. Law enforcement is just doing their jobs. She had to of known that breaking the law would get in into trouble? Another thing that upsets me is that young women who come from N Africa and have no association with family or fellow Africans wearing the burqa, go out of their way to start wearing it. Them trying to make a statement by breaking the law is offending to me. No one should be trying to promote people to break the law. France is a democracy and the majority of the people want the ban, therefore it is in effect. Sarkozy should not get penalized for running the conuntry the way the majority want it run. France has alwayes had that strict rule about keeping religon out of everyday life, so why would you immigrate to such a country and cause problems?

Obviously I don't have a dog in this fight. While I understand the ideological argument for freedom and liberty I also think that without some "social cohesion" societies will splinter, things in the banileux may already be past the tipping point and that's not just the fault of "immigres".

In a country where nudity is the norm I can totally understand why covering up too much wouldn't sit well with many a French(wo)man. Ich habe keine Problem with that. In fact I think (sometimes) nudity especially of the female form is divine! So maybe some should now dress up in burqa but with most of private parts exposed. Hey that might catch on and even become chic :-)

Jokes apart two caveats are in order. First France can do dang well what they please reg this "issue". If the country that gave us Napoleon and Robespierre now wanna give us this nonsense, that's their prerogative, just sit back and enjoy the fun! Second, however that doesn't mean it cannot be discussed, debated or criticized in this forum! Any person, French or otherwise, who says so needs to shut up. National-ism is so passé. Of all the people, the French should know it by now. Plus it's TE not their local media.

while Sarko is praised by the American conservatives, hi sis french bred, and is in habit t live in a society where muslims , jews, christians buddhists... have the same civil rights, though what he undertaook, is that one religion must nt get more rights than the others, and to prevent that illiterate muslim imans in our language and laws from teaching hate speaches and their own interpretation of the koran to their co-religion worshippers, he created for them a university cursus, now they must past a grade in french language and french laws to get the autorisation of preaching in mosquees, als as there were/are as many interpretations of the koran as imans, he requested them to organised themselves as our catholic religion, so that there is a pyramid with one representant for the whole at the height, and this person elected by the different muslim streams is the official representant like a local pope that has the ability to discuss with our government, and the Rector of the Paris Msquee is discussing at the same level with the Grand Rabbin de France, as Former Cardinal Lustiger for the Catholics t, and together they try to find a way to live in peace in our country, THE RECTOR OF PARIS MOSQUEE DON'T ENDORSE THE BURQA AS A MUSLIM RELIGIOUS OUTFIT, and says that the Muslims in France ought to conform to our laws

So the blah blah around this society cases, are only political blah blah.

A Lefty President, or any ther president would have made the same law.

So the discourses that nitpick France on this thread, (through Sarkzy), are only ment to sigmatise our french society as a mere, if nt french bashing, but as times changed, these aren't so ostentatious like they were during Bush era.

We are nt people that can be lectured or influenced by opinions of others nationals, you would already know it, WE ARE INDEPENDANT, and we intend to remain so.

How about the "King Abdullaziz dude" who forbids Christmas from being celebrated in Saudi Arabia?

Intolerant western societies? Sure, that's why there are so many thousands of Muslims who flee from their countries where Islam, "the religion of peace", is practised. That's why non-Muslims can't live in peace with Muslims as neighbors, Philippines , Indonesia, India, Nigeria?. Check it out.

The Sarko dude has lost all sense of proportion when defending the liberties of and imposing sanction on French citizens.

a) The Sarko dude and other Western leaders would use their offices to defend the liberty of some neocons to draw cartoons to denigrate the last Prophet or to burn the holy Koran. These would have result in colateral damage and deaths to many innocent lives, in fact often very far away from their shore.

c) Yet these Political dudes would go on to impose sanction on a dress code which has not proven harmful to anyone, but are considered a sore eye to the intolerant Western societies.